A note for Lady Hobbit: I'm glad that the last chapter helped cheer you up when your day was not going the way you wanted it to. What you said about naming your chocolate rabbits after Fili and his brother sounds like something this girl *points to self* would do. Talk about crazy fangirls... :)

Chapter 27

*Fili*

Three weeks later…

Fili pulled back and Mabel's reins and sat watching his little brother trying to get his pony back under his control. Coal was in a very mischievous mood and was not afraid to show it. Fili would not have been able to do anything for his brother seeming how the black-furred creature was too interested in throwing his hind heels in the air while the eldest prince was counting how many bucks Kili could take until he was tossed from the saddle or Coal put a halt to his actions.

The count was seven powerful kicks when Kili gave up and leapt for the sky. He almost got there too. Fili bit his lip when Kili came back to the earth with a loud thud. He dismounted quickly and hurried over to where Kili was on the ground.

"Are you alright?" he asked and Kili nodded. But he knew Kili would hide it if he was hurt so he asked, "You sure about that, Kee?"

"Yeah, I'm fine. Just knock my breath out is all." Kili answered with a half-smile. But the elder was still not convinced that getting the breath knocked out of his lungs was the only thing that had happened to his brother. Kili sat up and grimaced when he tried to take a deep breath only adding to Fili's worry. It was possible that Kili had bruised something internal with the way he had slammed into the hard earth.

Kili saw the look on Fili's face and shook his head claiming that it was nothing and he was not really hurt. Fili did not feel very reassured and he especially did not when Kili swayed after he had stood up.

"You're not okay, are you?" Fili asked but Kili replied that he had just gotten up too fast and he was just a little dizzy. He remounted Coal after giving the pony a dark glare and turned back to glance at his brother who was still watching him with a troubled expression.

"I'm perfectly alright." Kili said then added, "But if you don't hurry up and get back on your pony, you are going to be rather lonesome until you can catch up with me."

Fili smiled back at his brother. Sometimes Kili would tell the truth if he was hurting or not and this appeared to be one of those times.

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They rode on in silence for some time until Kili suddenly burst out laughing as if there was no tomorrow. Fili turned to watch as Kili came very close to sliding off Coal's back for the fit of laughter he was in.

"What by Mahal is so funny?" Fili asked him when Kili had settled down a little.

"I was just…thinking about the names of…of the months!" Kili gasped.

"And what is so funny about them, might I ask?"

"Well, you see I was saying them backwards in my head…and April is Lirpa along with October b…being Rebotco!"

With that, Kili promptly began to laugh again. Fili just stared at him for a little while until he began to think the names over and then he saw what Kili was cackling over. Who would name a month something that could become Lirpa? And May would be Yam, if one were to spell it backwards. The blond prince started the chuckle at the names as well, but he found the way Kili seemed to not be able to breathe for all the laughing he was doing slightly more amusing. Only my brother would find something like that. he thought fondly.

Kili stopped laughing over what any kind of name would be (Legolas becoming Salogel the last one he thought of), he fell very silent and Fili was being to wonder what Kili was thinking about that seemed so captivating when Kili grinned and said, "Liudnarht."

"What did you say?" Fili asked because whatever it was sounded like gibberish.

"Liudnarht." Kili replied, but it still did not make any sense.

"And what does that mean?"

"Figure it out."

I bet it's another name backwards. Fili thought and began going through the mental list names he knew that started with 'T'. He came up with negative results the first two times, until finally he had two names left that could be it, but he wanted to be sure.

"Does it ride a large animal?"

Kili gave him a funny look but then said yes.

"Does it wear twigs in its hair and act like a complete um… not-even-going-to-say-that-word?"

"Yeah." Kili answered with a grin.

"Is it Thranduil backwards?"

The dark-haired prince nodded then said, "That was a little fun when you were guessing. Should we keep doing that? Saying names backward and then guessing at them?"

"Sure."

And that was how the rest of the afternoon went. For almost two hours all they did was guess at names and words that had been switched around. They both had great fun with it finding things like "fle" and Kili even tried a whole sentence for Fili that went something like "Ilif sah tog ot yrram a ssecnirp."* When Fili found the answer out, it was all Kili could do to keep from laughing at Fili annoyed and completely unamused face.

By the time both Dwarves were tired, Kili had thought of another game with words. Instead of turning them around, he added an 'H' to the beginning of each word. It turned out, once they started talking like that, they could not stop much to the amusement of the two of them.

"He have ho hop hooing hiss." What Fili had tried to say was, "We have to stop doing this."

"Hi ho! Hiss his hoo haddicting!" Kili had attempted, "I know! This is too addicting!"

Then they burst out laughing at the way they sounded and began to thump each other on the head when one of them did it again.

Before they were asleep, Fili noticed that the sky looked a little too overcast to suit his liking and hoped that it did not mean rain was going to ruin all the fun they had been having up until then.

A/N So this took too long for me to write. Sorry about that.

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*"Fili has to marry a princess." is what Kili said.*